About 5:40 p.m., police responded to the area of Northwest Ninth Avenue and North Louisiana Street, where they found a 1999 Mercury.

The owner had reported the Mercury stolen earlier that afternoon from the 3100 block of South Taylor Street. The owner told police she had parked the vehicle in a driveway Saturday evening, and it was gone Sunday morning.

When officers arrived, several people were standing around the stolen vehicle, and they directed officers to a black 2001 Jeep that was driving away from the area at a high rate of speed. They told officers a man and a woman were inside the Jeep and were involved in the vehicle theft.

Police stopped the Jeep at Northwest 11th Avenue and North Tennessee Street. Michelle Nicole Saldana, 21, was driving the Jeep and there were no passengers, police said.

Police found an illegal double-bladed knife in the center console, and officers removed Saldana from the vehicle and placed her in a patrol car. Police searched the Jeep and found three fake $20 bills, as well as a printer and five more copies of counterfeit $20 bills that had not been cut out, authorities said.

Saldana was booked into Potter County jail on third-degree felony charges of forgery and unlawfully carrying of a weapon.

Police returned the Mercury to its owner and the incident remains under investigation.